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Charlene Drew Jarvis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 131
Scope and Contents The Charlene Drew Jarvis Papers document Drew-Jarvis’s campaign for Washington, D.C.’s City Council, her time as national co-chair for the Clinton/Gore presidential campaign, and her work on the National Institute of Health Mental Health Advisory Council. Documents include biographical information, brochures, campaign materials, correspondence, contact lists, council files, Board of Elections and Ethics files, mailings, programs, photographs, publications, speeches, and audiovisual...
Dates: 1978-2014

League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia Records

 Collection
Identifier: 033
Scope and Contents

The collection contains clippings and alphabetically arranged office files maintained by the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia to document its activities. Topics in the records cover primarily local D.C. political issues, but also national and international concerns of the National League of Women Voters. The records are divided into two series: topical files and clippings.

Dates: 1930-1982

Marion Barry for Mayor Records

 Collection
Identifier: 152
Scope and Contents

The collection contains paper materials from Marion Barry’s 1978 campaign for mayor. Included in this collection are campaign promotional material, D.C. Government agency papers and campaign related reports. The materials date from 1977-1981.

Dates: 1977 - 1981

Mayor's Mansion Debate Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 129
Scope and Contents

The collection consists primarily of correspondence, in the form of emails, faxes, and letters. Additional materials include: reports, testimonies, maps, copies of deeds, and appraisals from both government agencies, and private citizens.

Dates: 2001-2003

Political Study Club Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 095
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of records pertaining to the Political Study Club of Washington, D.C. including yearbooks, annual breakfast programs, and clippings.

Dates: 1914-1968

Self-Determination for D.C. (SDDC) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 003
Scope and Contents The collection consists of office files documenting the activities of the Self-Determination for D.C. Coalition in support of home rule and voting rights issues. In particular, the collection consists of testimony, legislation, lobbying packets, correspondence, and media lists regarding its lobbying efforts in support of Congressional legislation passed in 1973 granting D.C. home rule (D.C. Self-Government and Reorganization Act). The records also contain materials compiled by the coalition...
Dates: 1970-1980

Service Workers Union - SEIU Local 82 Oral History Project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: OHP014
Scope and Contents

Between 1993 and 1997, Service Employees International Union Local 82, the DC branch of a union representing mainly custodial workers, conducted a total of 13 oral history interviews with union members as part of the Service Workers’ Oral History and Education Project. Interviewees were current and former union members of all ages, some who had taken part in union leadership. Topics include work experiences, union politics, interviewee experiences in union leadership, and health.

Dates: 1993 - 1997

Sam Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 154
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of materials related to the personal, professional, and political life of Samuel H. “Sam” Smith. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, both personal and professional, and copies of his numerous writings, excluding his four published books. Additional materials include military and educational records, photographs, ephemera, subject files, materials related to various organizations, and audio visual items.

Dates: 1937 - 2009

WAMU Broadcast Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 045
Scope and Contents The collection contains 679 audio cassettes containing recordings primarily of three weekly shows, Metro Connection, Public Interest (DC Politics Hour) and the Kojo Nnamdi Show dating between 1998 and 2004. All show content is related to local D.C. current affairs and history. The collection also contains editorials on D.C. political issues, most often prepared by Mark Plotkin, as well as some 1-hour segments from Public Interest, which relate to local Washington, D.C. matters. ...
Dates: 1998–2004

Women's City Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: 032
Scope and Contents

The materials are primarily meeting minutes of the Women's City Club of Washington, D.C. from 1919 through 1972. Also included are scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, and administrative records which document the Club's founding and activities.

Dates: 1919-1974

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